UPCOMING EVENTS
08/16/11 “THE LAST MOUNTAIN” FILM SCREENING
This will be a Special Screening and Event at 7 p.m. August 16, Tuesday at the Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville. Wenoca Group of the Sierra Club, the Western North Carolina Alliance and its French Broad Riverkeeper, North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light, Transition Asheville, and Appalachian Voices, invite you to a Q & A discussion after the screening.
08/18/11 “NEIGHBOR SAVES” PROGRAM BY TRANSITION ASHEVILLE
Transition Asheville's Energy Action Group is sponsoring a presentation on WNC Green Building Council's Neighbor Saves program. Neighbor Saves is an innovative program aimed at empowering participants to Save Energy, Save Money, Improve Comfort and Build Community in a team based (not just neighbors), fun environment. Participants get trained by and complete work on each others' homes with an experienced supervisor. Time is 7 PM for this program, and the location is Unitarian Universalist Church in Asheville. The event is free, and you will have an opportunity to meet members of Transition Asheville's Energy Action Group, and learn more about our vision. You can learn more about Neighbor Saves on their webpage.
08/18/11 to 08/22/11 NIRS RECLAIM POWER ACTION CAMP
Nuclear Information and Resource Service will hold an action camp in the area for nuclear activists. All skill levels are welcome. Location and directions will be disclosed after people register. More information is at: www.reclaimpowersoutheast.org and below.
08/19/11 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
Lunch will be eaten at noon, and meeting starts at 12:30. Location is NIRS office at 45 Riverview Drive, please park on the street. This meeting is open to all, and a short program is usually included.
Please go to www.wncpsr.org for more information, which includes how to get there and other details.
08/21/11 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE
“Real Campaign Finance Reform Can Lead to Real Health Care Reform” will be presented by Errington C. Thompson, MD at the Sunday, August 21st meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville, 2:00-3:30 PM, held in the YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market Street in the Ray Auditorium. Dr. Thompson is a trauma surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats. Through his books, lectures and blog, he hopes to share his thoughts and reflections on the current political landscape. Dr. Thompson was educated at Emory University and Southwestern Medical School and currently resides in the mountains of Western North Carolina. There will be a discussion period following the presentation. Following the meeting, there will be time for informal conversation. All are welcome!
09/01/11 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios: 109 Roberts Street (the corner of Haywood and Roberts), Asheville. VFP CHAPTER 099: http://vfpchapter099wnc.
09/06/11 ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES FORUM
Asheville City Council elections are quickly approaching. We have some very strong candidates running and we are excited to offer you the chance to meet them and hear where they stand on the issues prior to Election Day. The Candidate Forum will be held Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at Nazareth First Baptist Church. There will be a brief Meet and Greet at 6:00 p.m. followed by the Forum at 6:30 p.m. The Nazareth First Baptist Church is located at 146 Pine Street in Downtown Asheville. This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring your friends and neighbors. This is sponsored by WNC for Change.
09/07/11 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
“Greening your home, inside and out” is the topic for this meeting. Jacob Sadler, Alan Enzo and Jessica Enzo will be presenting innovative ideas to green your home and garden. Social is at 7 PM and program is at 7:30. The location is Unitarian Universalist Church at Edwin and Charlotte Streets.
09/11/11 WNC RETURNED PEACE CORPS ANNIVERSARY
The WNC Returned Peace Corps invites you to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. This will be held at the Grey Eagle in Asheville from 5:30 PM to 8 PM. There will be international cuisine, a band playing world music, and fellowship and conversation. Tickets are $12, either in advance or at the door. Proceeds will help fund Peace Corps Volunteer project in the developing world. Contact Sandy Houts at 298-2819 for more information
09/15/11 MOUNTAIN AREA INTERFAITH FORUM MEETING
This meeting will take place from 10 AM to noon, and the location is the Unitarian Universalist Church in Asheville on Edwin and Charlotte Streets.
09/16/11 to 09/18/11 MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT 50 CONFERENCE
The Military Industrial Complex at 50: Charlottesville, VA. A Conference on Moving Money from the Military to Human Needs http://micat50cville.org Speakers include Col. Ann Wright, Karen Kwaitkowski, Ray McGovern, Helena Cobban, Bunny Greenhouse, and more.
09/21/11 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
The Second Annual International Day of Peace celebration will be from 4:30 to 7:30 PM at Pack Square. Sponsoring and/or endorsing groups who are involved in our event include Asheville Peacetown, Veterans for Peace Local 099, Arts to People, the local UN Association, the B'hai community, the Mountain Area Interfaith Forum,the Social Action committee of the First Congregational United Church of Christ and other faith groups. More information to come.
09/24/11 CALL TO ACTION ON THE CLIMATE
Moving Planet--a global day of call to action/awareness around climate change on Sept 24, organized by Bill McKibbon and the 350 crew, more info at www.moving-planet.org/. More information to come.
10/5/11 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
“Sustanable transportation: a future worth creating” a discussion on energy and transportation issues. UNCA professor Dave Erb will lead the discussion, and present an overview of these issues. Social is at 7 PM and program starts at 7:30 PM. Location is Unitarian Universalist church in Asheville, at the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Streets.
10/06/11 FREEDOM SQUARE IN WASHINGTON DC
Join thousands to protest wars and injustice on the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Stop the machine, create a new world! More info here: http://october2011.org/
10/08/11 to 10/09/11 MARCH ON U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND
Join us on October 8-9, 2011 in South Florida and at the gates of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Florida as we demand: NO BASES, NO 4TH FLEET, BUILD BRIDGES, NOT BASES.
11/13/11 to 11/15/11 LAKE JUNALUSKA PEACE CONFERENCE
The fourth annual Lake Junaluska Peace Conference, “Poverty, Abundance, and Peace: Seeking Economic Justice for All God’s Children,” will lift up some of the systemic causes of poverty and economic disparity to help participants better understand these issues and to be equipped as change agents to work for alleviating these causes of poverty for a more just and peaceful world. See http://www.lakejunaluska.com/
11/18/11 to 11/20/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
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ONGOING EVENTS
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square in Asheville
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse in Hendersonville
SATURDAY
Transylvanians for Peace and WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility have a weekly vigil at noon in front of the courthouse in Brevard.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Come and join in the RECLAIM POWER SOUTHEAST Action Camp!
August 18--22, 2011 on the Carolina state line in the thermals of the Blue Ridge
We hope you'll join NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Services) and other groups at the Reclaim Power Southeast Action Camp near the North/South Carolina state line from August 18-22, 2011. All ages and all skill levels are welcome. This event is for activists and those who are ready to become one!
RECLAIM POWER: empowerment is for each of us an internal, but like so many things, it is aided and enhanced by being with others of the same spirit! It gets really amped when people share inspiration from many different "issue" perspectives and from more than one generation! Join us and take time to open to new skills and hone those you rely on, learn new issues, share deep insight on long-term commitments, and create context for our passion to grow.
PRODUCTS: Empowered Activists and Community/Strategic action/Widening Network in solidarity with many ongoing campaigns--including the work at Blair Mountain, No Nukes Summer and the Walk Away From Uranium in Western Australia (see bottom of this e-mail for links to these campaigns).
The Action Camp site is located at a slice of Blue Ridge Heaven with a swimming pond and space for wandering as well as our shared space for issue workshops, specific skill training and developing the fine arts of non-violent direct action.
NO NUKES, NO COAL, NO KIDDING has been a theme of our work in the Southeast. This Action Camp includes social justice and the commitment to disarmament and creating peace--and is wide open on the front of teaching transferable skills--like how to do effective media work, how to make a strong blockade, how to deal with law enforcement during non-violent community actions, legal rights for activists, effective design of banners, puppets, posters. We are looking for more skill leaders and are open to more issue sessions.
Directions to the site will be disclosed to those who register, but it is only 40 minutes south of Asheville, NC and a short distance to many other communities in NC, SC and northern GA. Day-only participation is an option, but camping on the site is included in registration and recommended for those who would like to experience more community time.
You are welcome to come for any parts of the event beginning 4 pm on the 18th (unless you want to join the set-up crew!) and we hope you will stay for Monday August 22 when we will use our new and old skills together off-site in a non-violent expression of free speech (to be announced). Please do, if you can, plan to stay! More information is at: www.reclaimpowersoutheast.org
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Oak Ridge peace march remembers victims of Hiroshima
OAK RIDGE - On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped and destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge played a major role in Project Manhattan. 66 years later, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance marked the Hiroshima bombing with a series of events. Dozens gathered in Oak Ridge at Bissell Park Saturday to remember what took place sixty-six years ago in Japan.
"Our march is always conducted in the spirit of non-violence. The message we have is that peace is a responsibility for all of us. It's important for us to act together if we ever want a world of peace," said Ralph Hutchison, coordinator for the OREPA.This march has been taking place for 23 years now and this year's participants traveled from all over the region, including Laura Sorensen of Asheville, North Carolina.
"I hope everyone remembers what we did to Japan. We did the unthinkable, that we don't want done to us. We killed innocent people and that is what war does," said Sorensen.
The peace march ended in front of the gates of the Y-12 plant, where several security guards looked on with binoculars.
"We gather here in solidarity with them. Our voices and the songs we sing and the peace cranes that we tie, are all our way of saying we stand with the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we say never again," said Hutchison.
On August 9th the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance will have a commemoration for the bombing of Nagasaki with a peace lantern ceremony in Knoxville at Sequoya Hills Park at 8pm.
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square in Asheville
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse in Hendersonville
SATURDAY
Transylvanians for Peace and WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility have a weekly vigil at noon in front of the courthouse in Brevard.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Come and join in the RECLAIM POWER SOUTHEAST Action Camp!
August 18--22, 2011 on the Carolina state line in the thermals of the Blue Ridge
We hope you'll join NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Services) and other groups at the Reclaim Power Southeast Action Camp near the North/South Carolina state line from August 18-22, 2011. All ages and all skill levels are welcome. This event is for activists and those who are ready to become one!
RECLAIM POWER: empowerment is for each of us an internal, but like so many things, it is aided and enhanced by being with others of the same spirit! It gets really amped when people share inspiration from many different "issue" perspectives and from more than one generation! Join us and take time to open to new skills and hone those you rely on, learn new issues, share deep insight on long-term commitments, and create context for our passion to grow.
PRODUCTS: Empowered Activists and Community/Strategic action/Widening Network in solidarity with many ongoing campaigns--including the work at Blair Mountain, No Nukes Summer and the Walk Away From Uranium in Western Australia (see bottom of this e-mail for links to these campaigns).
The Action Camp site is located at a slice of Blue Ridge Heaven with a swimming pond and space for wandering as well as our shared space for issue workshops, specific skill training and developing the fine arts of non-violent direct action.
NO NUKES, NO COAL, NO KIDDING has been a theme of our work in the Southeast. This Action Camp includes social justice and the commitment to disarmament and creating peace--and is wide open on the front of teaching transferable skills--like how to do effective media work, how to make a strong blockade, how to deal with law enforcement during non-violent community actions, legal rights for activists, effective design of banners, puppets, posters. We are looking for more skill leaders and are open to more issue sessions.
Directions to the site will be disclosed to those who register, but it is only 40 minutes south of Asheville, NC and a short distance to many other communities in NC, SC and northern GA. Day-only participation is an option, but camping on the site is included in registration and recommended for those who would like to experience more community time.
You are welcome to come for any parts of the event beginning 4 pm on the 18th (unless you want to join the set-up crew!) and we hope you will stay for Monday August 22 when we will use our new and old skills together off-site in a non-violent expression of free speech (to be announced). Please do, if you can, plan to stay! More information is at: www.reclaimpowersoutheast.org
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Oak Ridge peace march remembers victims of Hiroshima
OAK RIDGE - On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped and destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. The Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge played a major role in Project Manhattan. 66 years later, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance marked the Hiroshima bombing with a series of events. Dozens gathered in Oak Ridge at Bissell Park Saturday to remember what took place sixty-six years ago in Japan.
"Our march is always conducted in the spirit of non-violence. The message we have is that peace is a responsibility for all of us. It's important for us to act together if we ever want a world of peace," said Ralph Hutchison, coordinator for the OREPA.This march has been taking place for 23 years now and this year's participants traveled from all over the region, including Laura Sorensen of Asheville, North Carolina.
"I hope everyone remembers what we did to Japan. We did the unthinkable, that we don't want done to us. We killed innocent people and that is what war does," said Sorensen.
The peace march ended in front of the gates of the Y-12 plant, where several security guards looked on with binoculars.
"We gather here in solidarity with them. Our voices and the songs we sing and the peace cranes that we tie, are all our way of saying we stand with the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we say never again," said Hutchison.
On August 9th the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance will have a commemoration for the bombing of Nagasaki with a peace lantern ceremony in Knoxville at Sequoya Hills Park at 8pm.
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